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Meet The Searchers is the 1963 debut and most successful album by British rock band The Searchers.The album featured their first single released in June 1963, a version of the Drifters' "Sweets for My Sweet", which was a UK No.1 for the band, as well as their version of the Clovers "Love Potion No.9", which was released as a single in the U.S. (but not in the UK) the following year.
Meet The Searchers. Released: August 1963; Label: Pye Records (NPL 18086) Format: LP; 2 20 alternative US release: Meet The Searchers / Needles and Pins (compilation of the band's recent UK LPs and SPs) Sweets For My Sweet – The Searchers At The Star-Club Hamburg. Released: October 1963; Label: Philips Records (P48 052) Format: LP; NR 11
The Searchers are an English Merseybeat group who flourished during the British Invasion of the 1960s. [1] [2] The band's hits include a remake of the Drifters' 1961 hit, "Sweets for My Sweet"; "Sugar and Spice" (written by their producer Tony Hatch); remakes of Jackie DeShannon's "Needles and Pins" and "When You Walk in the Room"; a cover of the Orlons' "Don't Throw Your Love Away"; and a ...
[2] [5] He was the drummer for The Searchers from 1960 to April 1966. After leaving the Searchers, Curtis recorded one solo song, a cover version of the Walker Brothers's "(Baby) You Don't Have to Tell Me". [6] In 1967, Curtis contacted Tony Edwards about a new group he was putting together, to be called Roundabout.
The Searchers (McNally at right) in 1965. Their first single, a cover of The Drifters 1961 song "Sweets for My Sweet", went to number one. [3] Their debut album, Meet The Searchers, was released in August 1963. The album primarily consisted of covers.
The Searchers Meet The Rattles LP was released in mono (Mercury MG-20994) and then fake stereo in January 1965 (Mercury SR-60994). Surprisingly, LP included one song from the Searchers' studio catalogue owned by competitive Pye Records , the song "It's All Been a Dream", B-side of the first UK hit single " Sweets for My Sweet ".
The Searchers were three partners at the time (Mike Pender, John McNally, Frank Allen) and Billy Adamson was an employee of the band. [5] That means he played on all tours and shows, but in the 1970s and 1980s he did not record with the band, although Mike Pender and Frank Allen both admired his drumming skills and style in their ...
"Needles and Pins" is a rock song credited to American writers Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono. Jackie DeShannon recorded it in 1963 and other versions followed. The most successful ones were by the Searchers, whose version reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart in 1964, and Smokie, who had a worldwide hit in 1977.